The Torkham crossing is located on the edge of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Pakistani Taliban militants frequently target security forces.

Shelling from Pakistan injured three Afghan journalists on Wednesday while they were reporting on the closure of a key border crossing, a Taliban official said. Torkham has been closed since Feb. 21 because of a dispute between the two neighbors.

Residents have fled a border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of Tuesday, a Pakistani official said. It’s the second consecutive day of tit-for-tat gunfire at Torkham,

Pakistani and Afghan forces traded fire overnight at a key northwestern border crossing that has been closed for more than a week over a dispute between the two neighbors, officials said Monday. No casualties were reported on either side of the Torkham crossing,

The Torkham dispute — and indeed all the controversies concerning the Pak-Afghan frontier — needs a permanent solution so that people’s lives are not upended by closures and violence every few months.

As the key crossing stayed shut for the 16th consecutive day, trade activity and travel between the two countries via Torkham have come to a grinding halt. Due to the route closure, thousands of people, including patients, women, children and elderly men, have been stranded for the last two weeks.

The closure of the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan results in daily losses of 3 million dollars

Prior to the ceasefire, tensions have remained high in the Torkham area and its surroundings, with both sides having engaged in heavy gunfire and shelling. The border village of Bacha Mena on the Pakistani side was evacuated, with residents relocated to safer areas due to intense cross-border shelling.

KHYBER: A tense calm prevailed on both sides of the Torkham border on Thursday despite an overnight a partial letup in artillery shelling. Local traders and transporters told Dawn that they were asked by the authorities to pull out all the stranded vehicles from the customs terminal.

Suicide Bombings in Pakistan amid Border Clashes with the Taliban | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G Pakistan saw two suicide bombings in two days. At least 13 civilians and 5 soldiers were killed during an attack on an army base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Overnight clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces at the main border crossing between the countries caused thousands of people to flee their homes but the situation had calmed down by Tuesday morning,